Introduction – Echelon SmartServer 2.2 User Manual
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Introduction
Introduction
The
SmartServer 2.2 is a low-cost, high-performance, controller, network manager, router, network
interface, and Web server that connects L
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, BACnet, M-Bus, and Modbus devices to
corporate IP networks or the Internet. It features a built-in Web server that allows Web access to all
the data managed and controlled by the SmartServer.
The SmartServer includes built-in applications for alarming, scheduling, logging, translating, and
performing arithmetic, logical and statistical functions on data types. It also includes a Web binder for
bridging multiple L
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domains. The SmartServer also includes built-in I/O for reading pulse
meters and digital inputs, and for switching local loads. All data points and built-in I/O are accessible
through either the L
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or Web interfaces.
The SmartServer can be used with the included Echelon Enterprise Services 2.2 (EES 2.2) for rapidly
deploying and managing SmartServers and integrating the SmartServer with OpenLNS CT and other
OpenLNS network tools.
EES 2.2 includes the i.LON AdminServer, which is a Web application that you can use to upgrade
SmartServers, backup and restore SmartServers, and create and deploy i.LON templates. For
example, you can backup or upgrade multiple SmartServers at the same time, or you can create a
template of one SmartServer and deploy that template on multiple SmartServers simultaneously. In
addition, when you deploy a template, you can have the SmartServer automatically or
semi-automatically install the devices in the SmartServer or OpenLNS network database included in
the template. This automatic network installation feature is supported for single-channel networks
containing up to approximately 20 devices.
EES 2.2 also includes the LNS Proxy Web service, which enables the SmartServer to directly
communicate with OpenLNS network databases on OpenLNS Server computers. This means that you
can use the SmartServer Web interface as a standalone OpenLNS network management tool to design,
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networks, or you can synchronize the SmartServer
with an OpenLNS network database and use the SmartServer to monitor and control the network.
The SmartServer can also be used as a standalone network manager without a connection to an
OpenLNS Server. You can use the SmartServer in standalone mode to manage a small, single-channel
TP/FT-10 or PL-20 network that does not require OpenLNS management or L
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connections.
In standalone mode, the SmartServer serves as a network manager that can directly load, commission,
set online/offline, wink, test, and reset the devices attached to its channel without sending the network
management commands through OpenLNS.
The SmartServer can be used as a Remote Network Interface (RNI), allowing you to use an OpenLNS
or OpenLDV based application, such as OpenLNS CT, to access to a single L
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remotely. The SmartServer includes optional IP-852 routing, which you can use to access multiple
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networks remotely (you can order IP-852 routing for new SmartServer units or activate it
later). The SmartServer can also be used with th
to capture, analyze,
characterize, and display ISO/IEC 14908-1 Control Network Protocol (CNP) packets either locally or
remotely via the Internet.
The SmartServer includes an optional programming feature that you can use to create and run custom
built-in applications and drivers on the SmartServer called Freely Programmable Modules (FPMs).
The SmartServer also provides a SOAP/XML Web services interface for integration with custom
enterprise applications.
The SmartServer operates on 100 – 240 VAC high-voltage models that are available for TP/FT-10 and
PL-20 channels. An optional built-in 56K V.90 analog modem can be ordered with the TP/FT-10
models.